they said rand, she didn t really understand communism or socialism. she lived in russia. well, they didn t think it would work here in america. and ironically when was pitching it they tried to get progressive icon walter lippmann as evil as this guy, walter li lippmann read his wo. they wanted him to do the foreword for this book noteing that it would sell thousands if he did it. if not, maybe it would only sell 900. lippmann wasn t able to write it and it went off and they published very few. it was huge. the book went through six impressions in 16 months. translate inside foreign languages left and right. circulated openly in the free world and as you will find out by the end of the program tonight, underground, the underground behind the iron curtain, people literally risked their lives to read it. it took off here in america